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The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
FRUIT GROWING FOR WOMEN.

\ Massachusetts, woman, having an hour
or two each day to spare from housework,
and wishing to earn a little money, decided
to try raising Strawberries for the market.
Her piece of land was fifty-seven feet long
and averaged fifty-seven feet wide. The
plants were well taken care of through
the season, and the last Of Octo-
Der the bed received a final hoe
ing, and a little later the plants were
mulched about two inches deep with pine
needles. Before the picking season ccm-
menced, she bargained with a market-man,
a mile and a half distant to take all her
berries, by allowing him as his share, -four
cents a basket for all berries sold at twenty
cents and over, and three cents for those
bringing less. In picking, she was careful
to put in only sound fruit, to nave as large
berries at the bottom of the basket as on
top and TO have them heaped as high as the
crate would allow. 1t being a poor year
for straw berries, owing to drought, which
did not affect her low ground, she received
good prices. None we're sold less than if-
teen cents a basket. The entire crop sold
was $50 baskets, for which she received
ifty-two dollars and eighty cents. Ex-
penses were twenty-one dollars and fifty
five cents, leaving a net profit of thirty one
dollars and twenty-five cents. -Amertcdn
AgricHltariSt.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
CHILDREN OF THE GYPSIES.

Along with unconscious native ethical
healthfulness comes such physical care as
we advanced people know nothing of.
Because the gypsy mother and father are
themselves perfect types of good health
healthy children are born to them. Be-
cause every gypsy oma on earth is loyal
to her mate many children are born to
them. Because the Instinct of fatherhood,
motherhood and parenthood is inviolable
with husband and wife gypsies owe this to
be so, and the care and affection for gypsy
children are remarkable. From the mo-
ment the babe is born until it is upon its
own legs for good it is constantly rubbed
and stretched and kneaded, that every
muscle may have proper action and de-
velopment. The same noble practice ex-
lists among the Pennsylvania Dutch. 1t
began with the latter behind the Swiss
mountains centuries ago, and it would be
an interesting research for the student of
men to ascertain If this precisely identical
gypsy and Pennsylvania Dutch custom
had not at some time the same Oriental
origin beyond the nimalayas.-Edgar L.
Wakeman's Letter.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
a wIFE-S IDEAS.

Burdette insists that he overheard a wo-
man lecturing her husband as follows on
board a train:
"Now, I'll tell you why | wouldn't go
into the restaurant and have a cup of cof-
fee with you when we were waiting for the
train. l { didn't like the way you asked
me. Keep quiet. | have the floor. Not
half an hour before you said to Mr.. Puffer:
Come, let's get a cigar and away you
went, holding his arm and not giving him
a chance to decline. When we met John
0'Howdy on our way to luncheon you
said: Just in time, John; come take
lunch with u.s. And then tonight, when
we found the train an hour late, you look
ed at your watch, turned to me and said in
a questioning way: Would you like a cup
of coffee?' And | did want it. was
tired and a little bit hungry, but | would
have died before ! would have accepted
such an invitation. And you went away a
little bit vexed with me and you had your
coffee and bread and butter by yourself,
and didn't enjoy it very much. In effect
you said to me, III you want a cup of
coffee-if you really want it'll will buy it
for you.' You are the best husband in the
world, but you do as nearly all the best
husbands do. Why do you men seem to
dole things ont TO your wives when you
fairly throw them to the men you know?
Why don't you invite me heartily, as you
invite men9 Why didn't you say, Come,
let's get a little coffee and something, and
take me right along with yous You would
not say to a man, Would you like me TO
go and buy you a cigar?' Then why do
You always issue YOU little invitations to
treats in that way to me? Indeed, indeed,
my dear husband, if men would only act
toward their wives as heartily, cordially,
frankly as they do toward the men whom
they meet, they would find cheerier COM
panions at home snan they could in the
stores"
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
A FEW DIETETIo PALACES.

1t is a mistake, not seldom misehievous
in the consequences to assume. That
there is any nutriment in becf-tea made
from extracts. There is none whatever
Q. That gelatine IS nutritious. 1t will not
keep a cat alive. Beef-tea and gelatine,
however, possess a certain reparative pow
er, we know not whats. That an egg
is equal to a pound of meat, and that every
sick person can eat them. Many, especial
" those ofnervous or bilious temperament,
can not eat them, and to such, eggs are in
jurious.-. That because milk is an inn
portant article of food it must be forced
upon a patient. Food that a person can
not endure will not cure. That arrow
water, useful as a restorative, quickly pre-
pared.-6. That cheese is injurious in all
cases. 1t is, as a rule, contradicted, being
usually indigestible; but it is concentrated
often craved.-7. That the cravings of a
patient are whims and should be denied.
The stomach often needs, Graves for, and
digests articles not laid down in any
dietary. Such are, for example, fruit,
pickle, jams, cake, ham or bacon with fat,
cheese, butter and miIk.-S. That an in
flexible diet may be marked out which
shall apply to every case. Choice of a
given list of articles allowable in a given
case must he decided by the opinion of the
stomach. The stomach is right, and theory
wrong, and the Judgment admits no APP
peal. A diet which would keep a healthy
mar might kill a sick man; and a diet suf-
ficient to sustain a sick man would moi
keep a well man alive. Increased quantity
of food, especially of liquids, does not
mean increased nutriment, rather decrease,
since the digestion is over-taxed and
weakened. Strive to give the food in as
concentrated a form as possible. Consult
the patients stomach in preference to his
cravings; and if the stomach rejects a GER
tain article do not force it.-Nedical Jour
nal.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
MRS. srowE WILL WRITE NO MORE

"No, | write no more. | have done, /
have done, l have done, " said the author
of ''Uncle Toms Cabin"
Anything more pitiful, more pathetic,
more tragic, canno be imagined than the
effect of the above few words, coming in
broken and faltering accents from the lips
of Harriet Beecher Stowe.
That the bright intellect of the author of
''Uncle Toms Cabin" is undoubtedly shat
tered cannot be longer denied.
eyes, my dear, l loved to write, and
began very young. especially liked writ
ing short stories when l lived in Bruins
wick, Me. For these | used to get fifteen,
twenty and twenty-five do!lars-good pay
in those times. l never thought of writing
a book when | commenced Uncle Toms
Cabin / became first reused Oh the sub
ject of slavery when | lived in Cincinnati,
and used to see escaping slaves come over
the Ohio from Kentucky. All, me! it
thrills me even now, the sight of those
p1or creaturesl Now, a young girl, sug-
costing the lover, parent or brother for
whom her heart was breaking in bondage;
again, the strong husband, aged father or
stalwart brother. Oh, | must write a story
to stop the dreadful shame. kept put
ting it off, dreading to bring the characters
to life, till the Fugitive Slave law dashed
me into fury, and l commenced what l
meant to be a short story like the others.
But it grew. and grew, and grew, and
came, and came, and came. | wrote, and
and wrote, and wrote, and wrote, and fl
nally thought | never should stop. did
only full of wrath and the story built itself
around it as | wrote. A publisher was
waiting for a story from me. | told him
the subject / had undertaken. He wrote,
saying: you have struck a popular sub
ject; for heavens sake keep it short,
wrote in reply: 4 shall stop when | get
Throughout before lie never got it, for
| had to make n i book Of it. While writing
it I was filed with an enthusiasm which
transfused my being, knew no hindrance,
no rival interest, no belief but in writing
it. l had young children, was keeping
house and teaching school at the time, and
never worked SO hard, but had to write.
Dinner had to be got, | knew. This had
to be written, just as much-aye, and more
too. 1t was though it was written through
me, 1 only holding the pen. | was lifted
off my feet. Satisfied | never thought
about being satisfied. When it was finish.
ed it was done, and relief came. l never
felt the same with anything | afterward
wrote. "-Pitsburg Dispatch.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
POPPIES.

Do you know why the peoples are always
So drowsy Town in the corn,
Half folded their red umbrellas
on the merriest summer morn,
And nodding so, on their couches low,
Like people at bedtime all in a row.
Why, 0 see they once were fairies,
When the gray old world was new.
And the good queen one fair morning
She sent them out in the dew
With q message wise for the dragon-fiies,
Who live with some lilies as blue as the skies,
But they loitered on their journey,
They played with the birds and breeze.
They lost their way in the meadow,
Chasing the busy brown bees:
Then they took long maps in the airy laps
OF the shadow under the wheat's gold caps.
And the queen whose stately message
Was lost and forgotten quite,
So angry grew that she fastened
To change with her screptre bright
Each faithless fay to a blossom gay,
And there in the field they must always stay
t'Wings never are wanted, surely,
By those who love lying in bed,
And freedom is only for people
Who know how to use it, - she said;
"And the world would go better know
If all such Migrants were punished So
Susan hartley.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23

Worry wears you out. Thought, like a
river, flows between fixed banks, flashing
back the stars by night and thesun byday,
turning the mill wheels and machinery,
feeding the life upon its banks; but worry
eats out and overhows the banks, and car
ries with it devastation and death. Don't
worry. Worry is the child of unbelief;
it is the child of d%istrust; no man can
trust God fully, and worry at the same
time. You might as well try to mix oil
and water in the same dish, as to mix
belief and worry in the same life with
Chris tianity. The minute you begin to
worry, you step down from the throne Of
faith; you throw the sceptre of belief at
your feet; you stand on the ground of I'M
belief in the living God. | go to a hotel,
and tell them | want to take an early train;
| leave my name with the clerk. If |
trust the clerk, | go to bed and sleep; if !
am afraid he won't call me, | wake up
every hour Of the night and consult my
watch. Every time Iawake, | insult the
clerk; and every time we are restless. we
insult our God.
1t is because we cannot trust our God
that we worry. III am persuaded that
he is able to keep that which | have en-
trusted to him against that day, cannot |
trust him for my daily bread? III can lie
down in the sleep of death, believing in the
power of God unto the resurrection and
the life, cannot l trust him with the
burdens and tolls of my daily life Surely
it is because we doubt God that We worry
and fret; and SO it comes oftentimes in life,
that God, who isloving, tender, and gentle,
takes the thing that worries-us out of our
lives. Your child sits with you at the open
car window; a piece of einder flies into the
child's eye; nature at once floods it up
with a sea of salt tears. You lift the lid, and
pluck out the cinder as soon as you can;
it IS worrying the ehild's whole nervous
system. My brother, if there be aught in
you life hat is wearing cut your strength
and dimming your vision, be still while
God takes it out.-Reg. o. p. Clifford.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
a DEAD SUMNER.

What lacks the ummer?
Not roses blooming,
Nor tall white lilies with fragrance rife,
Nor green things gay with the bliss of growing
Nor glad things drunk witt the wine of life
Nor flushing of clouds in blue skies shining,
Nor soft wind murmurs to rise and fall,
Nor birds for singing, nor vines for twining-
Three little buds l miss, no more,
That blossomed last year at my garder
And that is all. door
What lacks the summer?
Not waves -quiver
With arrows of light from the land of dawn,
Nor dropping of boughs by the dimpling river
Nor nodding of grass on the windy lawn.
Nor tides unswept upon the silver beaches,
Nor rustic of leaves on the treetops tall,
Nor dapple of shade in woodland reaches
Life pulses gladly on vale and hill,
But three little hearts that 1 love arc still.
And that is all.
What lacks the summer?
light and SAVIOR,
And messages of healing the world above!
Gone is the old-time strength and flavor,
Gone is the old-time peace and love!
Gone is the bloom ofthe shimmering meadows
Music of birds as they sweep and fall
And the great world is dim with shadows,
Because no longer mine eyes can see
The eyes hat made summer and life for
And that is all. [me-
Mar Il. Blake.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23

''See here, Pop" my hopeful exclaimed,
'shere's a bank bill under the CLOTH" and
he drew it out in triumph. Sure enough
it was a $50 ~greenback. In an instant /
had ripped that old baize off, and found
that under it, neatly arranged, was a lin
ing of big bills, amounting in all to $780,
900. There was also a note:
ftMY DEAR JACK
sit has for years been a within of mine
to write on the proceeds of a former work.
| seemed to get inspiration from the
thought that beneath my paper was other
paper more valuable and which had fair
ly earned. Then too, I'rather enjoyed my
posthumous joke of selling you with my
legacy. | know that you will not part
with the table contrary to my request, and
| feel sure that it will not be many days
after you receive it before your dear and
clever-handed little wife will insist on re-
placing my old ink-stained cloth. May
you and she enjoy all the good the lining
can bring!
"Your affectionate uncle,
'RoBERT."
looked in blank but delighted amaze
ment at the dearest girl She had not
moved, and fully expected that she would
have thrown her arms around my neck and
kissed me.
"Do you remember, Jack she said,
.'that you wanted to sell that desk to a
secondhand man >"
"Did II" | observed, with as much show
of innocence as | could command, for it
never does to put too formidable a weapon
in a woman's and above all a wife's hand.
"Did you? you know you did. Perhaps
you will say that | did not want to put OH
a new cloth the very day after we got the
desk
"Did you, my dear?'
odd l, or did l not You remember
well enough"
Il think l do remember your saying
something of the sort
"Now, Jack, l will give you a kiss and
a hug" an intention that she Immediately
and vigorously carried out.
4 i 4
almost forgot to say that Bobby didn't
get scolded, but was rewarded with the
handsomest boat that he could find; and
he was three days looking for the one that
would cost the most.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23
Automatic Tension.

The New High-Arm Davis is the only ma.
chine that has an automatic shuttle tension.
which never requires any changes after having
been once set right. The great problem of
getting "A shuttle tension that win pull evenly
under any and all circumstances, has been
successfully solved. The device by which
this end has been accomplished is 50 scientific
and yet SO simple, that the most unskiilfui can
use il with just as certain results a. the most
expert. IL produces an evenness OF stitch I'M
attained by other machines.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23

We are informed that the proprietors,
Messrs. A. p. Ordway & Co, recently sent
three dozen OF their reliable medicine,
Sulphur B~itters, to the Catholic Home for
Aged, which is highly appreciated by the
and inmates. "As ye SOW, so
shall yc reap. n-Editer Catholic Union.
Sept. 16-2t.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23

1T II THE LAW of development, that the
new shall succeed and displaee the old. This
law applies well To the New Davis Vertical
Feed sewing Machine Have Nou seen IL
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23

Neutral! Neutral in the fight against
drunkenness? Don't ask a mother to be
neutral when a wild beast is destroying
her Christian Aarocate.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23

Burts' dress shirts are the best of all in
cut, fit and makeup. Try M and you'll
buy no other after-New Store under the
Opera House.
The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-09-23

almost forgot to say that Bobby didn't
get scolded, but was rewarded with the
handsomest boat that he could find; and
he was three days looking for the one that
would cost the most.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-05
8 O'Clock P. NJ,
ON THE
23d Day Of June, 1887.

All bids or proposals to be addressed
TO M. +. Kahn, Secretary of the CITY Hall
and Court House Special Commissioners.
st. Paul, Mimi.
The right is hereby reserved to reject
all bids of incompetent and irresponsi-
BILE bidders, and all such bids as may be
unreasonable.
No bid will be entertained or consid-
cred unless accompanied by the bond of
the bidder or bidders, with sureties re-
siding In Minnesota, satisfactory to the
commissioners, in the penal sum of one
thousand dollars, conditioned that if the
bid shall be accepted and the contract
awarded to the bidder or bidders, he or
they will enter into and execute such
contract, and such bond with such sure
ties for the performance of his or their
contract as may be required by the Com
mlSSiOners, and approved by three
f0urthS % vote of the County Commits
siOners and Common Council of the CITY
of st. Paul, of the members elect in Joint
session, or in lieu of such bond the bid
may be accompanied by check for the
sum of one thousand dollars on some
bank in the City Of st. Paul, duly certi-
fed, as security, and deposit with said
commissioners and subject to the same
condition stated in the condition of
the bond, and payable to the order of
Robert A. Smith, Chairman of the City
Hall and Court House Commission. The
full individual names of the members of
a firm, and the full and correct name of
the corporation bidding shall be stated
in the bids.
BY order of the City Hall and Court
House Commissioners.
M. F. KAHN, County Auditor,
Secretary of Special Commission.
1dS-110
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-05
3 O'clock p. M,
ON THE
9th Day Of July, 1887.
COUNTY AUDITORS OFFICE, |
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, May 25, 1887.

All proposals or bids to be addressed
to Nj. +. Kahn, Secretary of the City
Hall and Court House Special Commits
sioners, st. Paul, MINI.
The right is hereby reserved to rel ect
all bids of incompetent and irreSpOnSi-
bic bidders, and all such bids as may be
unreasonable.
No bid will be entertained or consid-
cred unless accompanied by the bond OF
the bidder or bidders, with sureties re-
siding in Minnesota, and satisfactory to
the Commissioners, in the penal sum of
four thousand dollars, conditioned that
If the bid shall be accepted and the con-
tract awarded to the bidder or bidders,
he or they will enter into and execute
such contract, and such bond with such
Ysureties for the performance of his or
their contracts as may be required by
the Commissioners, and approved by a
threeIfourths % vote of the County
Commissioners and Common Council of
the City of st. Paul, of the members
elect in joint session, or in lieu of such
bond the bid may be accompanied by a
check for the sum of four thousand dol
lars ON some bank in the City of st.
Paul, duly certified, as security and
deposit with said Commissioners, and
subject to the same condition stated in
eiiO COlulIiOu VI lllc UOuu. duu pdydulO
to the order of Robert A. Smith, Chair
man of the City Hall and Court House
Commission.
The full individual names of the men,
bers of firm, and the full and correct
name of the corporation bidding shall
be stated in the bid.
By order of the City Hall and Court
House Special Commissioners.
M. f. KAN, County Auditor,
Secretary of Special Commission.
145-1SS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-06-05
8 O'CLOCK P, M.
ON THE
23d Day Of June, 1887.

Al! proposals or bids to be addressed
to NJ. +; Kahn, Secretary of the City
Hall and Court House Special Commits
siOners, st. Paul MINI.
The right is hereby reserved to reject
all bids of incompetent and irresponsible
bidders, and all such bids as may be un-
reasonable.
No bid will be entertained or consid-
cred unless accompanied by the bond of
the bidder or bidders, with sureties re-
siding in Minnesota, and satisfactory to
the Commissioners in the penal sum of
one thousand dollars, conditioned that
If the bid shall be accepted and the con-
tract awarded to the bidder or bidders.
he or they will enter into and execute
such contract, and such bond with such
SuretleS for the performance of his or
their contracts as may be required by
the commissioners, and approved by a
tnree-tourthS "a vote of the County
commissioners and Common Council of
the City. of st. Paul, of the members
eject IN Joint session, or in lieu of such
oond the bid may be accompanied by
a check for the sum of one thousand dol
lars lars on some bank in the City of st.
iaul, duly certified, as q security and
deposit with said Commissioners, and
SUBJECT to the same condition stated in
tne condition of then bond. and paya-
Die TO the order of Robert a. Smith,
Chairman of the City Hall and Court
House Commission.
The full individual names of the men,
bers of firm, and the full and correct
name of the corporation bidding shall
be stated in the bid.
BY order of the City Hall and Court
House Special Commissioners.
M. f. KAHN, County Auditor.
Secretary of Special Commission.
145-172